Is Web 2.0 an example of 21st century socialism?

Lessig doesn't think so. More here.

But I do. It's a semantic question, obviously. For me, socialism means employing the collective to defend the individual. Historically, there are many socialisms where this has simply not been the case. Thus, we disagree.

But a 21st century socialism we choose to remake, in the image of a century we all covet and proclaim ours, can break out from its historical straitjacket - can achieve something entirely different.

Web 2.0, crowdsourcing, consumer-producers ... all these concepts sit nicely with the idea of supportive communities which are able to organise themselves. Using open source tools to redefine and remove costs from the equations that large corporations would otherwise burden us with is 21st century socialism at its best.

Let's have more of it.